A year after my last day with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social my work on modelling the impact of increasing men's access to care and reducing excess risk of TB has gone live @commsmed.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Richards et al. use a compartmental transmission model of tuberculosis to understand the impact of strategies to improve men’s access to care and to reduce men’s excess risk of TB. In all four countri...
In this modeling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries 🧪 #MedSky #TB
plos.io/4ryyBFX
In a modelling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of Tuberculosis in low- and middle-income ...
Is TB more common in cities or rural areas?
New analysis presented by Seyed Alireza Mortazavi at #WCLH2025 today!
• Urban > Rural in Africa
• Rural > Urban in Western Pacific
• Similar elsewhere
2.3 million participants 26 countries using a Bayesian model fitted to WHO data.
🤝 by @LIGHTonTB
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
All are welcome to join the Gender Equity in TB Working Group today at 12:30 in Room B4B @theunion.org! We'll share updates on working group activities and host a panel discussion on progress to date and ways forward to ensure an equitable and inclusive #TB response.
Great to see this work led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social with @lightontb.bsky.social in @commsmed.nature.com. Further evidence that addressing gender disparities in TB burden and care are necessary for both an equitable response *and* an effective response. ⬇️
In our latest paper in @plosmedicine.org, we explore trade-offs in diagnostic algorithm, coverage, and duration of community screening for #TB, highlighting the importance of symptom-agnostic approaches and the need for strategies to sustain impact when screening ends.
plos.io/4tuD2SM
Katherine Horton
Katherine Horton
Katherine Horton
The LIGHT Consortium
TODAY!
Innovation from Nigeria at the Union Conference! #WCLH2025
Nathan Zoakah presents an e-poster on how community-based initiatives improved TB knowledge and attitudes in Nasarawa — using machine learning to assess impact.
#TB #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #Nigeria @zanklic.bsky.social
Lauren Leek
In this mathematical modelling study, Katherine Horton & co assess #TB community screening approaches & their estimated effects on TB incidence & mortality, concluding that methods that capture both infectious & non-infectious TB are needed to achieve sustained case reductions🧪
plos.io/4tuD2SM
💬 Can community-wide TB screening help bend the curve in Uganda?
Today at #WCLH2025, @alexandra-richards.bsky.social presents modelling on Uganda’s twice-yearly active case-finding campaigns.
The work suggests these community efforts are meaningfully reducing #TB incidence and mortality.
What if targeting TB in men could benefit entire populations?
This new modelling study from @alexandra-richards.bsky.social suggests exactly that 👇
✔️ More treatment coverage
✔️ Address social & structural risks
👉 Big reductions in TB incidence & mortality
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Our photos are telling a story are at a display at the #2025UnionConference #CommunityConnect, Bella Centre Balcony 3.
📷 Our photography exhibition features work that we have conducted using the photovoice study method.
Learn more: light.lstmed.ac.uk/research-2
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
In a mathematical modelling study, Katherine Horton and colleagues assess different tuberculosis (TB) community screening approaches and their estimated effects on TB incidence and mortality over ten ...
New study led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social.
Reducing men’s TB risk and improving treatment access could have big impacts on #TB incidence and deaths for men, women, and children.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@kchorton.bsky.social
@uofgshw.bsky.social
@lightontb.bsky.social
